LPL Financial today announced the firm has reached $50 billion in total RIA assets under custody, doubling its total as of the end of May 2012.
A bevy of trade groups and investor advocates says the SEC's proposed fiduciary rules could weaken the standard.
Advisors must be ready to deal with Gen Y as it becomes half the labor force.
Fidelity’s new virtual desktop allows advisors to access more applications than most others.
HighTower Advisors expects its newly announced HighTower Network, its broker-dealer/custodian affiliate, to land its first several teams of advisors who will not be equity partners with the firm over...
Art Tambaro, Royal Alliance's president and CEO, will retire at the end of the year and be succeeded by Dmitry Golden, a longtime member of the independent broker-dealer's senior leadership.
Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest lender, was ordered to pay more than $800,000 to a U.S. couple over their losses on investments including Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. preferred stock.
Shaffer Wealth Management of Atlanta, Ga., is the first advisor team to join the newly formed HighTower Network.
MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, cut its advisor force by a third, eliminating 2,500 jobs as the company scales back variable annuity sales and turns to other nations for growth.
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